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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

- Redesigning reports for conversion from QlikView to Power BI report visualization- Working regularly with Power BI, Python, and SQL Server

Cranberry Township, Pa

- Evaluated and assisted in initial design of Manufacturing 4.0 paint plant- Optimized paint plant wash water program across US/CA network to recycle over 1MM gallons of water, reduce >900k pounds of solid waste and reduce raw material costs by >$1MM per year- Completed Green Belt - Six Sigma project to improve processing time of pilot plant, including designing online portal for request and status updates- Gained proficiency in Excel VBA and some experience with Python coding

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Coordinated metallic bonding process and improved process flow to increase capacity 40%• Modeled the bonding process for capacity and cost reduction calculations• Absorbed functions of the EHS Manager for 5 months during new manager’s hiring process, overseeing Air Permitting, Management of Change, Incident Investigation and Safety Observations• Redesigned plans for extruder/grinder coupling system and central QC lab• Trained as an ISO Internal Auditor and completed multiple audits• Completed PPG Lean Sigma Initiator course, PPG equivalent of Six Sigma Green Belt• Assisted in evaluating and planning multimillion dollar plant expansion of Brazil, IN powder plant

Plymouth, In

• Created formalized Total Preventative Maintenance Plan broken down by function, task, and schedule for nearly 400 pieces of equipment• Reviewed fiberglass molding processes, identifying inefficiencies and presenting findings which resulted in the implementation of solutions, increasing safety and reducing machine down time• Created detailed video “self-help customer tutorial” so that customers could complete minor repairs on their own (eliminates more than half of all customer complaints) while increasing customer satisfaction – already approved by sales team and in use with high volume customers

Morris, Il

I worked for two and half summers as an engineering intern for Akzo Nobel (one half of summer spent studying abroad at Imperial College in London). • Critically reviewed difficulties surrounding the cleaning of 9 underperforming heat exchangers, working with area supervisors and operators to find out which exchangers were troublesome and developing the metrics to show scientifically that cleaning was required• Identified 5 heat exchangers lacking sufficient number of temperature elements (TE’s) to complete calculations, requiring new instrumentation• Used log mean temperature differential (LMTD) as metric, requiring 4 temperatures to do calculation• Completed Investment Project Approval Request and Process Change Approval (PCA), obtaining all necessary approvals to spend just under $30,000 for purchase and installation of new TE’s• Reviewed more than 630 Unusual Incident Reports, creating a database of reports for quick, easy access, allowing for the Safety Commissioner to develop future budget allocations• Performed analysis of reports to identify valve issues that repetitively caused injuries and loss of product• Became well versed in use of PI control system for data analysis, including PI Data Link with Excel• Reviewed technical documents including Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID’s), purchase orders, instrumentation database, and flow rate conversions• Listed out full details of plant wide Tempered Water systems to mitigate differential pressure issues• Assisted in commissioning of a more efficient nitrogen sparging system• Performed troubleshooting on catalyst chamber to understand bluing of internal metal• Met with outside sales reps in place of Safety Manager to review possible purchases for the plant• Created new SDS safety labels for tanks (replacing MSDS labeling) as required by OSHA• Successfully presented project results to engineers and site management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Engineering, Graduate

Activities and Societies: Club Ultimate FrisbeeBachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Participated in 6 week summer study abroad (second half of last summer working with AkzoNobel). Worked in Pilot Plant and Lab.